Essays

Trade and Human Rights: Towards Coherence - Essays

Caroline Dommen | SUR N.3 | Jan/2005

Implementing the right to development - Essays

E.S. Nwauche, J.C. Nwobike | SUR N.2 | Jun/2004

Reflections on human rights approaches to implementing the Millennium Development Goals - Essays

Fateh Azzam | SUR N.2 | Jun/2004

The right to recognition for gays and lesbians - Essays

José Reinaldo De Lima Lopes | SUR N.2 | Jun/2004

Courses of action in economic, social and cultural rights: Instruments and allies - Essays

Víctor Abramovich | SUR N.2 | Jun/2004

Who defines the public interest? - Essays

• Public Interest Law Strategies in Central and Eastern Europe •

Edwin Rekosh | SUR N.2 | Jun/2004

The right to education and human rights education - Essays

Richard Pierre Claude | SUR N.2 | Jun/2004

Millennium Declaration and Development Goals: Opportunities for Human Rights - Essays

Salil Shetty | SUR N.2 | Jun/2004

Civil society-State partnerships for the promotion of citizen security in Brazil - Essays

Fiona Macaulay | SUR N.2 | Jun/2004

Human rights, the environment and conflict - Essays

• Addressing crimes against the environment •

Steven Freeland | SUR N.2 | Jun/2004

The Coming of Age of Claims for Reparations for Human Rights Abuses Committed in the South - Essays

Jeremy Sarkin | SUR N.1 | Jan/2004

Public Interest Litigation Strategies for Advancing Human Rights in Domestic Systems of Law - Essays

Vinodh Jaichand | SUR N.1 | Jan/2004

Origin, Concept and Future of Human Rights: Reflections for a New Agenda - Essays

Emilio García Méndez | SUR N.1 | Jan/2004

Social, Economic and Cultural Rights and Civil and Political Rights - Essays

Flavia Piovesan | SUR N.1 | Jan/2004

Reflections on Civil Society and Human Rights - Essays

Oscar Vilhena Vieira, A. Scott Dupree | SUR N.1 | Jan/2004

Only Member States Can Make the UN Work - Essays

Sergio Vieira de Mello | SUR N.1 | Jan/2004

Repression in the United States after the September 11 Attack - Essays

Paul Chevigny | SUR N.1 | Jan/2004

International human rights regimes - Essays

• A matrix for analysis and classification •

Alejandro Anaya Muñoz | SUR N.25 | Jul/2017

An unprecedented exercise of international supervision - Essays

• The Ayotzinapa case and the experience of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) in Mexico •

Santiago Aguirre Espinosa, Mario Patrón, Sofía de Robina, Stephanie Brewer, María Luisa Aguilar | SUR N.25 | Jul/2017

Crimes against humanity in a democratic context - Essays

• The systematic pattern of violence in Brazil •

Marlon Alberto Weichert | SUR N.25 | Jul/2017

The implementation of UN treaty body recommendations - Essays

• An overview of latest developments and how to improve a key mechanism in human rights protection •

Vincent Ploton | SUR N.25 | Jul/2017

Violence against women in Latin America - Essays

• A look at access to justice and the structural conditions that allow cases of feminicide to multiply •

Natalia Gherardi | SUR N.24 | Dec/2016

Refusing Reproductive Health Services on Grounds of Conscience in Latin America - Essays

• Challenging policies and practises based on human rights standards •

Beatriz Galli, Diya Uberoi | SUR N.24 | Dec/2016

Care in transnational migration - Essays

• A category of social and political analysis •

Herminia Gonzálvez Torralbo | SUR N.24 | Dec/2016

25 Years of Quota Laws in Latin America - Essays

• As assessment of the political participation of women •

Lucía Martelotte | SUR N.24 | Dec/2016

From the “boom” in care to the exercise of rights - Essays

• The right to care and care is already recognised, but it must still be translated into transversal policies, with a gender sensitive approach •

Laura Pautassi | SUR N.24 | Dec/2016

“The daughters of Egypt are a red line” - Essays

• The impact of sexual harassment on Egypt’s legal culture •

Mariam Kirollos | SUR N.24 | Dec/2016

Sexual Violence in the military dictatorships of Latin America: Who wants to know? - Essays

• Why reports of abuses committed against political prisoners in the region are only now being heard •

Mariana Joffily | SUR N.24 | Dec/2016

Care work - Essays

• A comparison of Brazil, France and Japan •

Helena Hirata | SUR N.24 | Dec/2016

Feminism in Morocco: between the local and the global - Essays

• An assessment of the work of NGOs to defend women’s rights in relation to the Family Code •

Souad Eddouada | SUR N.24 | Dec/2016

Black feminism for a new civilizatory framework - Essays

• A Brazilian perspective •

Djamila Ribeiro | SUR N.24 | Dec/2016

Women’s rights and fiscal justice - Essays

• Why tax policy must be dealt with by the feminist movement •

Chiara Capraro | SUR N.24 | Dec/2016

Expansion and exclusion in the Universal Child Allowance programme in Argentina - Essays

• Litigation on access for mothers deprived of liberty •

Pilar Arcidiácono | SUR N.24 | Dec/2016

Women’s Rights and Feminist Movements in Iran - Essays

• An overview of how the Iranian women’s movement has emerged in the face of unique contexts •

Nayereh Tohidi | SUR N.24 | Dec/2016

Controlling women’s fertility in Uganda - Essays

• Perspectives on religion, law and medicine •

Sylvia Tamale | SUR N.24 | Dec/2016

The Maria da Penha law: 10 years on - Essays

• What do we want to celebrate? •

Wania Pasinato | SUR N.24 | Dec/2016

Africa and the rule of law - Essays

• The problematic rebirth of liberalism in Africa and why the rule of law must be reconsidered to achieve sustainable development •

Makau Mutua | SUR N.23 | Jul/2016

Protection policies for Human Rights defenders - Essays

• An analysis of the Latin American context: Brazil, Colombia and Mexico •

Alice de Marchi Pereira de Souza, Rafael Mendonça Dias, Sandra Carvalho | SUR N.23 | Jul/2016

Sovereign debt restructuring, national development and human rights - Essays

• Towards a new global consensus (with powerful opponents) •

Julieta Rossi | SUR N.23 | Jul/2016

From hyper-maternity to hypo-maternity in women’s prisons in Brazil - Essays

• This study analyses the risks of the abrupt severance of ties between a mother and her baby after an intensive period together in prison •

Ana Gabriela Mendes Braga, Bruna Angotti | SUR N.22 | Dec/2015

Latin America’s Protagonist Role in Human Rights - Essays

• How the region shaped human rights norms post World War II and what it means for the field today •

Kathryn Sikkink | SUR N.22 | Dec/2015

Banks and Human Rights: a South African Experiment - Essays

• How facilitating dialogue between banks and the human rights sector results in gains for all •

Bonita Meyersfeld, David Kinley | SUR N.22 | Dec/2015

State regulatory powers and global legal pluralism - Essays

• How international economic regimes impose obligations on states that are contradictory to human rights •

Víctor Abramovich | SUR N.21 | Aug/2015

Lies engraved on marble and truths lost forever - Essays

• A reflection on the dialogue between the National Truth Commission, the Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces in Brazil •

Glenda Mezarobba | SUR N.21 | Aug/2015

Is humanitarian action independent from political interests? - Essays

• Why the humanitarian aid industry - still largely associated with hegemonic power - is facing a crisis of legitimacy •

Jonathan Whittall | SUR N.21 | Aug/2015